The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-04

FOREIGN.-The Week in Europe
A ministry has finally been formed for
France without General Boulanger. M.
Rouvier is premier and minister of f.
nance; Gen. Sausier succeeds Boulanger
in the war Office, and the other portfolios
are taken by Flourens, Spalier, Fallieres.
Jaures, Develle, Etienne, Cookery and
Berthelot. The Cabinet is composed of
moderate Republicans and is said to have
assurances of support from the party of
the right. 1t is safe prediction that
the days of the new government will be
few and full of trouble.
AT Berlin the formation of the new
French Cabinet is received with satisfac-
ton, although the prediction is it will
have stormy existence, followed by
more acute crisis, as M. Rouvier is re-
garded as a more stop-gap. The health
of the Grown Prince Frederick William
remains the same; his health is good but
he is unable to speak, and his physicians
refused to permit him to attend the in
spection of the garrison. Prince Will
lam will represent the Emperor at Queen
Victoria's jubilee. The Emperor attend
ed the spring review at Potsdam, accom-
panied by brilliant staff, and the Grown
Princess with her family and Grand
oeuvres. The latest Russian ukase pro-
hibiting foreigners holding property in
the western provinces, and compelling
them to sell their landed property to
Russians and clear out, has aroused an
intense anti-Russian feeling in Ber-
lin, and popular indignation is likely to
put decisive check on the employment
Of German money in Russia. Official
statistics show that 1924 persons left
Alsace- Lorraine between 1880 and 1885.
London advices state that the utter
ances of Mr.. Gladstone during his visit
to Wales are awaited with the keenest in
terest. 1t is said he is preparing decla-
ration of principles on the church discs
Enlistment question. The Liberal lead
ers are in complete ignorance as to the
future of the party beyond its uncompro-
missing opposition to coercion and sup
port of home-rule, and as they have be-
come FESTIVE Mr.. Gladstone has deter
mined to advance disestablishment of the
church in Wales and Scotland. The re-
turn of Mr.. Parnell to more active life
har
tween the Liberals and Nationalists.
Sir Charles Dixie has created sen.
sation by asserting that England's de-
lenses are defective and she would be
utterly powerless to prevent invasion of
London by France or Germany. He adj
yises exter sive reforms in the naval and
military systems.
"A mining horror of frightful dimen-
sions is reported from Blantyne, eight
miles from Glasgow, Scotland. An ex-
plosion of gas in the Udston coal pit
filled the mouth of the shaft with debris,
imprisoning about $50 golfers. Forty
five men at work in the upper seam
we're taken out, one of whom died imme-
diately after reaching the surface. 1t is
believed that seventy or more miners
have persisted.
"A fire in the Opera Comique, the
Oldest theater in Paris, Wednesday night,
of last week, caused a terrible panic
among the audience and the performers,
and many persons were killed and in
jured, either by being trampled under
foot or jumping out of the windows.
The building was consumed. AT last adj
vices nearly one hundred dead bodies had
been recovered from the RUNE. 1t was
horrible affair,